Agric & Biotech

Agric & Biotech

Federal varsity partners group on food security

As a means of supporting the call for economic diversification through agriculture in order to ensure food security, generate employment and increase foreign exchange...
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Agric & Biotech

GM cotton: Burkina Faso settles dispute with Monsanto

Burkina Faso's cotton companies and growers seem to have settled their long dispute with Monsanto Seed Company over their revenue losses allegedly caused by...
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Agric & Biotech

‎GMOs: Senegal supports adoption of agric biotech

President Macky Sall of Senegal has thrown his weight behind the adoption of agricultural biotechnology in the country. He made the declaration during the 2017...
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Vicious circle of drought, forest loss in the Amazon

Logging that happens today and potential future rainfall reductions in the Amazon could push the region into a vicious dieback circle. If dry seasons...
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Ogun battles illegal logging, urges tree planting

The Ogun State Government has called on "Baales" and other community leaders in the three senatorial districts to partner government in tackling nefarious activities...
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GMOs: What we eat must not eat us

Nnimmo Bassey, Director of Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF, in his welcome words) at the Media Training on Biosafety (themed: “Promoting Biosafety in...
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Scientists demand emphasis on how trees impact water cycles, climate

Scientists are demanding that the impact of trees on water cycles and climate be given a closer look as, according to them, effects of...
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Biotechnology, ‘scientists’, ‘experts’, government agencies and patriotism

The need to interrogate what patriotism means in the context of the challenges of the push of modern agricultural biotechnology into Nigeria and Africa...
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